Edward Jenks Quotes
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
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I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.
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In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
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The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
